Giro d'Italia Giro d‘Italia 2024, Stage 5, Genova-Lucca, 178 km

[Lequack]

Rider presentation live

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[Netserk]

If you had 21 hard days in a row the final week would be incredibly bad

I don't think so. If anything, I think the first week is more likely to suffer than the third.

The hardest GTs with most racing until then have not had worse racing in the third week, I think.

 

[tobydawq]

Full candy floss for Tadej today.

 

[Brullnux]

I don't think so. If anything, I think the first week is more likely to suffer than the third.

I don't really mean in terms of gaps, I more mean in terms of the final week just being a bit too much of a war of attrition. There won't be fun attacks as much as people bonking and losing minutes.

 

[Netserk]

I don't really mean in terms of gaps, I more mean in terms of the final week just being a bit too much of a war of attrition. There won't be fun attacks as much as people bonking and losing minutes.

If the 21 stages are of similar difficulty to half of the stages now, I don't think that is true at all. The most attritional races see attacks too.

While the route was far from brutal, the Tour was raced hard last year. And at its most attritional stage, we had half the GC riders in the break over Loze and plenty of attacks.

 

[Lequack]

Full candy floss for Tadej today.

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[Netserk]

The 2022 Tour had few sprint stages, and had those days been hilly ones, I think we'd still have had plenty of attack in the last week. Nothing about how that race unfolded suggests to me that a GT without sprint stages would be a slugfest.

 

[Berniece]

Full candy floss for Tadej today.

Nice, looks much better

 

[tobydawq]

Nice, looks much better

I don't think so. I prefer the black shorts. But I'm no fashionista.

 

[Lequack]

How come blocking the road is still acceptable to the UCI?

 

[Berniece]

I don't think so. I prefer the black shorts. But I'm no fashionista.

But then he also has white shoes and socks. After the ridiculous purple pants, that weren't even the right colour, I think UAE doesn't care themselves.

 

[ashhutch1997]

It's ashame that they didn't do a loop around Lucca and do Monte Serra.

 

[Wyndbrook]

But then he also has white shoes and socks. After the ridiculous purple pants, that weren't even the right colour, I think UAE doesn't care themselves.

Its all good,it's been a long time since Mario used to strut his stuff.

 

[search]

how did Tarozzi manage to get dropped while being on the attack?

 

[Tim Cahill]

Recent trend of not really letting a break get anything continues. I think if they get 4-5 minutes up the road then it creates more order and stops anyone trying anything mid-stage like happened on 3, you would think this preferable to the sprinter teams but it seems not.

 

[Barnacle Bill]

how did Tarozzi manage to get dropped while being on the attack?

Think he had to do a Dumoulin so he nipped off the front first...

 

[Slavique Nuke]

how did Tarozzi manage to get dropped while being on the attack?

Maybe he needed a nature break

 

[Rob5091]

Alpecin giving it the old Sky train!

 

[Slavique Nuke]

Alpecin pays tribute to Sagan's return

 

[Ilmaestro99]

There's 120km flat after the climb to the finish. If I was Jacobsen I would just ride my own tempo and use my team to pace me back to the front rather than go to the red chasing this pacing in the climb

 

[Tim Cahill]

If they are using their doms like this and catching the break then it could open them up to attacks later in the stage

Merlier gone, problem is if they drop too many sprinters then youll have loads dropping back to help

 

[Rob5091]

Full speed to the sprint at Ceparana I suppose.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Signing Jakubsen Mareczko was not one of DSM's better moves.

 

[Netserk]

how did Tarozzi manage to get dropped while being on the attack?

He was that shitty.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Surely that's Plapp dropping back to help Ewan, and not just being crap